Skip to content
Commit f7a14f32 authored by Yiwen Jiang's avatar Yiwen Jiang Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

ocfs2: fix a tiny race when running dirop_fileop_racer



When running dirop_fileop_racer we found a dead lock case.

2 nodes, say Node A and Node B, mount the same ocfs2 volume.  Create
/race/16/1 in the filesystem, and let the inode number of dir 16 is less
than the inode number of dir race.

Node A                            Node B
mv /race/16/1 /race/
                                  right after Node A has got the
                                  EX mode of /race/16/, and tries to
                                  get EX mode of /race
                                  ls /race/16/

In this case, Node A has got the EX mode of /race/16/, and wants to get EX
mode of /race/.  Node B has got the PR mode of /race/, and wants to get
the PR mode of /race/16/.  Since EX and PR are mutually exclusive, dead
lock happens.

This patch fixes this case by locking in ancestor order before trying
inode number order.

Signed-off-by: default avatarYiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent a270c6d3
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment